Lily Tomlin is bringing her one-woman show, 'An Evening of Classic Lily Tomlin,' to the Berman Center for the Performing Arts in West Bloomfield.

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B.J. Hammerstein
Detroit Free Press Staff Writer

Detroit native Lily Tomlin's observational humor and characterizations, including her classic telephone operator Ernestine, have paved the way for an extraordinary 50-year career in TV, film and stage. She's won multiple Emmys, two Tonys, two Peabodys, a Grammy and in 2003 she was the recipient of the prestigious Mark Twain Prize for American Humor.

But when she called last week to do an interview in advance of her appearance this weekend at West Bloomfield's Berman Center for the Performing Arts, just days after winning an Emmy Award for narrating the HBO documentary "An Apology to ...